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WorksheetsCh 9 - 10
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which is NOT an element of Free Enterprise?
a)
Profits
b)
Controlled by central authority
c)
Competition
d)
Buy and sell freely
2.
Invented the Cotton Gin
a)
Eli Whitney
b)
Henry Clay
c)
Francis Lowell
d)
John Deere
3.
Led to a canal boom in the United States thanks to the success New York had
a)
Central Canal
b)
Erie Canal
c)
Wabash Canal
d)
Ohio Canal
4.
In what country did the Industrial Revolution begin?
a)
United States
b)
France
c)
Great Britain
5.
Who invented the steel plow?
a)
Cyrus McCormick
b)
John Deere
c)
Samuel Slater
d)
Robert Fulton
6.
How did the Agricultural Revolution impact farmers?
a)
New farming methods required more workers on the farm.
b)
New farming methods produced bigger harvests with less farmers.
7.
Which 2 natural resources were the backbone of the Industrial Revolution?
a)
wood and peat
b)
oil and natural gas
c)
coal and iron
d)
cotton and tobacco
8.
England is an island. Why was this an advantage during the Industrial Revolution?
a)
It wasn't an advantage.
b)
It made it more difficult for other countries to steal England's ideas.
c)
England has many ports and rivers which allow easier worldwide trade.
d)
England had tropical weather, which allowed more crops to be grown.
9.
The system in which the government owns and controls the means of production, such as mines and factories, is called?
a)
fascism
b)
socialism
c)
capitalism
d)
mercantilism
10.
Who designed the first efficient steam engine?
a)
James Hargreaves
b)
John Kay
c)
Richard Arkwright
d)
James Watt
11.
Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?
a)
Low wages
b)
Safe working conditions
c)
Dangerous working conditions
d)
Widespread pollution
12.
Which of the following best describes industrialization?
a)
nations began to rely on one another for trade of various goods and resources after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
b)
smaller nations needed assistance from their larger neighbors, so they formed trade alliances
c)
more and more people began to move to cities, away from rural areas
d)
advancement in technology to produce goods on a larger scale and a reliance on manufacturing of goods instead of individuals producing goods themselves
13.
The process of taking over and fencing off land formally owned by peasant farmers.
a)
communism
b)
enclosure movement
c)
utilitarianism
d)
laissez-faire
14.
Who wrote Wealth of Nations and supported Laissez-Faire economics?
a)
Adam Smith
b)
David Ricardo
c)
Thomas Malthus
d)
John Wesley
15.
Which scientific theory was suggested by Charles Darwin?
a)
Plate Tectonics
b)
Heliocentrism
c)
Evolution
d)
Relativity
16.
memorized the plans to a steam powered textile mill and brought those plans to the US from Britain
a)
Samuel Slater
b)
Eli Whitney
c)
Francis Cabott Lowell
d)
Moses Brown
17.
An arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product.
a)
Factory System
b)
Lowell Mills
c)
Assembly Line
d)
Cottage Industry
18.
the right to vote
a)
suffrage
b)
urbanization
c)
annex
d)
disenfranchisement
19.
This handsome man came up with the first working electric light bulb...
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Alfred Nobel
c)
Louis Pasteur
d)
Henry Odrechowski (he's 2 but he smart)
20.
He created new vaccines and a process for making milk safe that was named after himself...
a)
Alfred Nobel
b)
Louis Sullivan
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Louis Pasteur
21.
Which Italian inventor created the radio?
a)
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
b)
Guglielmo Marconi
c)
Carlo Gambino
d)
Rigatoni Spaghetti Ferrari
22.
Manifest Destiny was the belief that...
a)
It was the United States' God given right to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
b)
Native peoples in the United States should be treated with respect.
c)
The United States should respect the land claims of countries.
d)
All people in the United States should have the right to vote.
23.
Which of the following contributed to the westward expansion of the United States?
a)
European warships attacked the eastern seaboard, forcing citizens to move westward for safety.
b)
Most of the land east of the Mississippi River was not suitable for farming.
c)
Many Americans felt it was their right and duty to move westward.
d)
The standard of living on the Pacific Coast was very high, so many people wanted to move there.
24.
the production of works of art and entertainment designed to appeal to a large audience
a)
Mass Culture
b)
Psychology
c)
Suffrage
d)
Zionism
e)
Suffrage
25.
the study of the human mind and human behavior
a)
Psychology
b)
Radioactivity
c)
Chartist Movement
d)
Dominion
e)
Chartist Movement
26.
the legal or social separation of people of different races.
a)
Segregation
b)
Emancipation Proclamation
c)
theory of evolution
d)
secede
e)
Dominion
27.
a declaration issued by U.S.president Abraham Lincoln in 1863, stating that all slaves in the Confederate states were free
a)
Emancipation Proclamation
b)
Segregation
c)
Psychology
d)
manifest Destiny
e)
Aborigine
28.
a 19th-century British movement in which members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections, including suffrage for all men.
a)
Chartist Movement
b)
anti -semitism
c)
Dreyfus Affair
d)
Zionism
e)
Secede
29.
a controversy in France in the 1890s, centering on the trial and imprisonment of a Jewish army officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been falsely accused of selling military secrets to Germany
a)
Dreyfus Affair
b)
Dominion
c)
Manifest Destiny
d)
Anti-semitism
e)
U.S. Civil War
30.
prejudice against Jews.
a)
anti -semitism
b)
Maori
c)
zionism
d)
Aborigine
e)
assembly line
31.
a member of a Polynesian people who settled in New Zealand around ad.800
a)
Maori
b)
Aborigine
c)
Jews
d)
Pomogroms
e)
Psychology
32.
key leader in the Zionist movement
a)
Theodor Herzl
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Guglielmo Marconi
d)
Ivan Pavlov
e)
Third Republic
33.
experienced one of the worst famines of modern history
a)
Ireland
b)
Mexico
c)
Australia
d)
New Zealand
e)
United States
34.
The journey of Native Americans from the east to lands in Oklahoma is known as The
a)
Trail of Tears
b)
Pomgroms
c)
Zionism
d)
Zionism
e)
Secede
35.
teacher of deaf students who invented the telephone in his spare time
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Guglielmo Marconi
c)
Henry Ford
d)
Wilbur and Orville Wright
e)
Psychology
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